Friday, August 8, 2014

Conditional
Conditions:
If, as Obama claims,
it is too early to send
the effective Ebola
drug to Africa. When
will it be too late?Simplifying
The Equation:
Global warming is driven by the amount of CO2 humans pour into the
atmosphere. To reduce global warming we can reduce the amount of CO2
emitted. We can do this by cutting the amount of CO2 each person
human emits, cutting the number of humans, or both. Both is most
likely to work, least
likely to happen.

Now
It Can Be Told:
Tokyo Electric Power Co. now
says that all
the fuel rods in reactor 3 at the Fukushima melted down, not
the 60% as
previously reported.
The good news is that
they only melted most of the way through the containment vessel.
They think. Yet.

Dr.
Livingston Presumes:
The United States announced on Wednesday plans to spend $110 million
a year over the next three to five years to help African nations
develop peacekeeping forces that can be rapidly deployed to head off
militant threats and other crises that endanger international profits
from looting the continent.

Turning
Purple: Putin,
in response to the latest round of sanctions, has banned the import
of all US foods and EU fruit and vegetables. If this doesn't work,
he is going to have the entire Russian population hold their breath
until the US gives in.

Pocket
Change:
BofA will
pay $17.5
billion to gloss over
the fraud they committed while causing the 2008 financial collapse,
while the execs get to
keep their bonuses and
no one goes to jail.
Just like Citigroup ($7bn) and JPMorgan/Chase ($13bn). Feel
better now?

Vive
la France:
“Ensuring a woman’s right to control her fertility is fundamental
to achieving gender equality.”

Blame
It On The Whether:
The Italian economy shrank 0.2% in the second quarter, after falling
0.1% in the first. So much for 'out of the woods'. Italy’s
current level of production is 9.1% below that in September
2007. Italy is producing less today than it was in 2000.
Unemployment in the eurozone stands at 12%, and German factory orders
are dropping sharply. Economists believe this to be a temporary
setback due to the weather. Or the Ukrainian situation. Mumble,
mumble. Antiseptic:
The federal government has stopped reporting incidents when
hospitals make life-threatening errors, because... it was too hard
for the public to understand the data?

Our Motto

Keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through kickin' ass and celebratin' the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was.